The Cloud Delivered at Fighter Jet Speeds
The Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet is among the fastest in the world with supersonic speeds of 1,190 miles per hour
Emulate the speed of this world-class aircraft with your cloud infrastructure. Not only does dinCloud help migrate to the cloud – fast- its high performance infrastructure runs at F/A-18 equivalent speeds.
To learn just how fast the cloud can be, watch our F/A-18 video below or keep reading.
An F/A (Fighter & Attacker) is a title rarely given to new models of aircrafts because of the strict criteria that the plane has to meet. Attackers have the ability to carry bombs and fighters have the ability to carry missiles. Because of this mix, the F/A-18 can carry many lightweight weapons that other warplanes cannot. The F/A-18 is usually carrier-based except for training over land.
The F/A-18 has 2 Turbine Engines, which gives it the ability to break past the sound barrier. The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) F/A-18 Hornet is a twin-engine supersonic, four-season carrier-capable multipurpose and multirole combat jet, designed as both a combatant and an attack jet. Designed by McDonnell Douglas and Northrop, the F/A-18 was derived from the latter’s YF-17 in the 1970s for use by the United States Navy and Marine Corps. The Hornet is also used by the air forces of several other nations. The U.S. Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, has operated the Hornet since 1986.
The first McDonnell Douglas Hornet made its first flight 20 years ago at 11:04AM on Nov. 18, 1978. Company test pilot, Jack Krings, took the new fighter on a 50-minute flight from St. Louis over Southern Illinois, climbing to 10,000 feet for a series of tests and then up to 24,000 feet for more tests, performing beyond expectations.
Before the F-18, no attack aircraft could match or outperform a fighter in the air. Likewise, no fighter aircraft possessed capabilities that enabled it to carry out the ground attack role without an additional pilot. Even multi-role aircraft, which could perform either duty, often couldn’t carry enough equipment to destroy ground and air targets in the same mission. The A/F-18 Hornet was an explosively innovative advancement, being able to fight ground and air targets on the same mission.
A/F-18 Hornet
Origin
USA
Type
Carrierborne fighter and attack aircraft
Max Speed
1,032 kt / 1,183 mph
Max Range
740 km / 460 miles
Weight
Empty 10,455 kg / 23,050 lb max. take-off 25,401 kg / 56,000 lb
Dimensions
Span 11.43 m / 37 ft 6 in length 17.07 m / 56 ft 0 in height 4.66 m / 15 ft 3.5 in
Powerplant
Two 7257-kg (16,000-lb) afterburning thrust General Electric F404-GE-400 turbofans
Armament
One 20-mm M61A1 Vulcan six-barrel rotary cannon with 570 rounds; up to 7711 kg (17,000 Ib) of disposable stores, including AAMs, ASMs, anti-ship missiles, free-fall or guided bombs, cluster bombs, dispenser weapons, napalm tanks, rocket launchers, drop tanks and ECM pods, carried on nine external hard points.
The Cloud Delivered. Fast.
As fast as an F/A-18 Hornet 1, dinCloud helps organizations migrate to the cloud – fast – because speed and performance are mission-critical to your business.
We want you to see for yourself the ease and immediate time to market you’ll gain with dinCloud and its partners.
We don’t rest on our laurels. It isn’t that the world’s largest IT distributor picked dinCloud as its leading hosted virtual desktop provider (aka desktops-as-a-service). And it isn’t because the world’s largest IT solution provider selected dinCloud to offer to its customer base or because of the numerous awards we have won (but you can read about those in our news section).
It is because of customers that have migrated to the cloud with dinCloud. Test us out. Call your current IT solution provider or reseller and ask for dinCloud services. To learn more details immediately, reach out to us and we’ll get the wheels in motion.
Now that you’re here, please browse our site to learn more.
dinCloud delivers the cloud. Fast.
